Moonscars Musings | Lore and Story Overview

Being an analysis of the history and lore of the sublunary world and it's inhabitants.

Introduction

Elements

"When we reject something, we make ourselves incomplete. Thus we all hate what we need the most."
-Zoran the Sculptor

Being a glossary of general terms, used throughout the world of Moonscars.

The Sublunary World - The land beneath the Moon.

Ichor - A soul liquid, the very essence of life. Found naturally within humans, implanted within clayborns via a special gland to animate them. The fuel for acts of Witchery, and the rejuvenation of wounded flesh. The Church of the Moon teaches that ichor is the womb-blood of the Gentle Mistress, the Moon Goddess. A gift from her suffering that grants humanity life and freewill.

Ichoral Gland - A heart-shaped organ located within a region of the body called the lunar plexus. All ichor in a being starts its flow from this organ, saturating the body and granting life. If a gland is damaged, the being who bears it will suffer great pain and a loss of power as their ichor bleeds away.

Moulds - A vessel sculpted of clay, bone powder, and ichor. The creation of moulds was masterminded by Zoran the Sculptor as a means for humanity to escape death.

Clayborn - Also called clayborne. Living moulds created in the image of humans. Within them they bear clay glands to contain the ichor that animates them. Prone to cleaving, a condition wherein their internal ichor glands are damaged and they turn against their creator in a mad rage. Maddened clayborn suffer distorted forms and become monstrous in shape, developing a hunger for the bones of humans. Powdered bones suffice to sate their hunger and appease their madness, at least for a time.

Pristines - An elite squad of warriors created by the Sculptor. Four humans of noble birth were selected as templates for clayborn counterpats. The moulds were created in the image of chosen humans with superior means to all others, created to be perfect warriors, who would never suffering from cleaving. Eight was the number of the Pristines - four humans and four clayborn.


The Workshop - Zoran's workshop, the original birthplace of his clayborn. The Mould Machine within the workshop enables a being to transfer their self into a clayborn, creating a facsimile of themselves wrought in clay.

The Mould Machine - A creation of the Sculptor, located within his Workshop. This device can allow a being to cast their essence into a mould, birthing a clayborn. While entombed within the machine, they may cast moulds as often as they are required. The one who births a mould becomes the parent flesh. Casting one's self from mould to mould reinvigorates one's ichor, freeing it from stagnation.

Dopplegangers - Should a clayborn retain a single mould for too long, their ichor becomes thin and weak, tainted. When a clayborn sloughs off one mould for another, the former mould retains their memory, powers, and remnants of their ichor. The remnant ichor boils and spoils, becoming Dark Ichor.

This cast-off shell reanimates as a Doppleganger, a 'parent flesh' that hungers to destroy the 'child' that left them behind, feeling somehow that doing so might make them whole. Likewise, the newly cast mould feels the call of their former ichor, commanding them to kill what they once were. The seemingly inevitable duels that transpire will result in a single victory taking the power of both entities. With every blow, the ichor flows to a single vessel - altered, restored, radiant once again.

The Integral Vessel - An enigmatic item that Zoran sent his Pristines in search of, to bring the mad clayborns under his control. Zoran the Sculptor believed that one of his Pristines would bear the true Vessel, which would be revealed when they turned upon their human parents. For Zoran believed that a mould must always overcome their parent flesh, becoming more complete in devouring their former self.

The Pristine clayborn Lajos and Wanda each believed they had discovered the Integral Vessel by slaying their human incarnations. However, when each took the Vessel into their own bodies the Vessel became cleaved and spoiled, though the Pristines gained tremendous power and monstrous forms as a result.

The Great Kiln - Also called the Master Kiln. A place within the deep bowels of the Earth, where every clay vessel was annealed. The true source of all moulds, the true womb of the clayborn.

Prelude History

"Maybe it's not so bad that the war erased most of these memories."
-Grey Irma

Being a condensed summary of significant occurances in history leading up to the events of Moonscars.

Children's Pestilence - A plague that swept the lands beneath the Moon during the Black Spring. The plague took the lives of all young children, and stripped adults of their ability to conceive. The followers of the Moon Goddess professed that she had taken back what she had given to mankind, and in doing so freed women of their greatest burden, however horribly.

Foreign Invasion - The kingdom was invaded by an army of foreign origin, seeking to capture land and women. Great atrocities were carried out, though it seems the invasion may have been prompted by some action of the king. With the kingdom's army aged and weakened, the king turned to the sorcerer-sculptor Zoran for a solution.

The remains of the children slain in the Pestilence were gathered and burned, their powdered bones forming the key ingredient in Zoran's alchemy. With vast quantities of bone powder, his production of clayborn increased exponentially.

The Moulding - Zoran had striven for a means to restore his lost daughter to life, and masterminded the creations of the first moulds, though his initial efforts were incomplete. Taking clay, bone powder, and ichor from his lost daughter, Zoran created the first clayborn, the First One, in his own image. An early effort and imperfect, it was nevertheless a beginning. With the petition of the king, Zoran attained the influenced to complete his grand designs. Following refinements, Zoran crafted legions of clayborn to repel the foreign invasion.

The Cleaving - Zoran's clayborn drove the invaders from the kingdom, but the clayborn eventually suffered from cleaving, going mad and turning upon the living populace, slaughtering them and devouring their bones to feed their insane hunger. Zoran retreated into solitude to seek a solution. He forged his Pristines, an order of warriors designed to be immune to cleaving, and dispatch them across the kingdom to seek out a key item to reverse the madness of the clayborns and bring them back under control. Ultimately, the Pristines succumbed to infighting among their humand and clayborn members, and their efforts failed... or so it seemed.

Characters

"In the world of two Mothers, we were born orphans."
-The Gargoyles.

Being an overview of the cast of Moonscars.

---The Workshop---

Grey Irma - A Pristine that became a clayborn to escape the pain of her wounded form. She seeks the Sculptor, Zoran, creator of the clayborn, to understand her fate.

Etalag - A clayborn wrought in the form of a large cat. Constant friend and companion to Zoran. He wanders the kingdom and often seems to speak to Zoran, though the Sculptor is rarely present. Is he mad, or is there something more to his ramblings?

Zoran - The Sculptor. Creator of all moulds, all clayborn and Pristines. If he is a god to his creations, then he is surely a flawed one. Or perhaps, he captured the essence of humanity all too well...

The First One - The Sculptor's first clayborn, wrought in his own image, albeit imperfectly. A cleft husk barely capable of thought, yet perhaps still capable enough to mark Grey Irma's progress and offer her useful tools.

Vladyslava - Priestess of the Church of the Moon. She wanders the ruined kingdom before taking refuge in the Workshop. Her knowledge of the world and its elements is truly vast, though she is circumspect about the source.

Adelinka - A clayborn wrought in the image of Zoran's first daughter, Adelina. Special care and attention was made to her, and she was given the ichor of Zoran's true daughter, the same ichor that was used to animate all clayborn that followed. Thus, even the most deranged clayborn ignores Adelinka and will not seek to harm her. Though she wears the form of a child, Adelinka has aged throughout the years in spirit and bears her burdens with growing weariness even as she indulges in perpetual childishness.

Ion - A mysterious clayborn shapeshifter. Not born to reflect any formerly or currently living human, but from discarded element left over from the creation of other moulds. The last creation of the Sculptor. Unplanned. Unwanted. Unshackled. It struggles to birth its own identity.

The Gargoyles - Statues found throughout the kingdom, with a sibling pair in the Workshop that frequently heckle Grey Irma. They guard certain regions against intrusion, and have learned a thing or two. They revile the Moon and instead praise the Earth, dreaming of a time before they existed, a time of indivision that they yearn to return to.

---The Kingdom---

King Drahan - Ruler of the kingdom, husband to Queen Horpyna and later Princess Yadwiga, a young woman he'd abducted from foreign lands. He petitioned Zoran to create the clayborn armies to repel a foreign invasion. After the clayborn became cleft and turned upon humanity, Drahan lost his life. A mould, cast in his image as a decoy, was itself later cut into pieces and scattered through the kingdom.

Yadwiga - The Red Princess, and aspiring Red Queen. A foreign woman claimed by King Drahan. She aspires to rule the kingdom even in its ruined state, with Drahan dead and Zoran decried as unfit. All that falls beneath the Moon's light, she sees as her proper due.

Gniewko - The child of King Drahan and Princess Yadwiga. The child perished in the Children's Pestilence, and in his madness Drahan commanded the Sculptor to revive them as a clayborn. After wounding Yadwiga and later killing his nurse maid, the child fled into the depths of the castle, cleft and transformed into a true monster.

Yadema - Brother to Yadwiga, who was taken from their family when she was only a child. He seeks to reconcile with her, though his road will be long. A foreigner to the kingdom, he has little respect for the art of crafting clayborn.

Horpyna - Queen of the kingdom, wife to King Drahan, mother to Lajos of the Pristines. After the king claimed princess Yadwiga, Horpyna was cast away. Abandoned, she hides in the bowels of the Earth, cursing those who abused her and mourning her lost child.

Karina - Youngest daughter of Zoran, younger sister to lost Adelina. She shelters hidden within the castle, hiding from clayborn, crafting bone powder into treats, with recipes whispered to her in the night, carried on beams of moonlight.

The fate of Zoran's wife, mother to Adelina and Karina, is unknown, save that her death was violent, and Zoran would never speak of her. It was Adelina's death that seemingly drove Zoran to create the clayborn, and ever-after he prefered his creations to humanity. His regard for his still-living daughter Karina seems non-existent.

---The Pristines---

Chokran - The Loyal. Pristine and comrade to Grey Irma. His parent flesh both hated and envied his mould-self, seeing it as a superior being freed of his flaws, while resenting it for that very perfection and its unnatural origins.

Wanda - The Kind. Pristine and comrade to Grey Irma. Her parent flesh was Dark Wanda, but uncommonly Wanda felt no envy or urgings to do her harm. Only when hearing whispered rumours of how the Integral Vessel sought by the Pristines would be the demise of all clayborn did Wanda strike down her counterpart. This led to her discovering the Integral Vessel, which she assimilated into herself, letting her control and soothe the clayborn around her. Wanda regarded Zoran as but a birth attendant to the clayborn, and not their true source. He saw them as art crafted to fulfill his will, not as vessels free to fill themselves with their own causes.

Lajos - The Cruel. Pristine and comrade to Grey Irma. His parent flesh was a son to Horpyna, the old queen, rejected by the king for lacking any desire to rule. Lajos struck his parent flesh down and uncovered the Integral Vessel, which turned him into a hideous giant. For all his monstrousness, he chose to guard the Master Kiln in the bowels of the Earth and ensure the Integral Vessel would not reach it, fearing that it would be used to carry out the rumoured plan to unmake all his clayborn kin.

Red Irma - The parent flesh to Grey Irma, a noble born human. The architect of the infighting among the Pristines. Red Irma was chosen to be the template for the Pristine clayborn Grey Irma, and allowed the clayborn to believe she was a true human in order to manipulate her. A worshipper of the Moon Goddess, Red Irma concealed her identity as Vladyslava for a time, taunting Grey Irma with her knowledge. At the Apex of the castle, she casts off her disguise and wields the powers of the Moon Goddess as her own, becoming the Moon's own Shadow.

Summary of Events | The Prelude, in Detail

"For this we'll have to brave many, many moons to come."
-Zoran the Sculptor

Being an in-depty summary of the events in Moonscars, in two parts.

---Prelude in Detail---

The sublunary world is the land beneath the light of the Moon. Throughout the land, the Church of the Moon taught that all humans were born from the Gentle Mistress, the Moon herself, gifted with the essence of soul and life, ichor. In this land, a great kingdom stood, ruled by King Drahan, a rapacious and cruel monarch.

In a time known as the Black Spring, the kingdom was stricken with a terrible plague - the Children Pestilence. Young and newborn children perished in the plague, and women lost the ability to conceive.

Shortly after the plague, a foreign army invaded, committing great atrocities in retaliation to the actions of the king. Desperately seeking a solution, the king was brought word of a sorcerer of reknown who had proven able to work miracles - Zoran the Sculptor.

Zoran had experimented with the creation of moulds - vessels made of clay, bone powder, and ichor to provide humans a means to overcome death. While his earlier efforts were imperfect, Zoran eventually successfully created a mould for his lost daughter, Adelina, which was granted his daughter's ichor. The resulting entity, a clayborn, was called Adelinka. Zoran attempted to make her clay flesh live so she could grow out of her childhood, but this effort failed, and whenever her moulds would fail, Adelinka would be reborn into a new one, time and again.

Zoran's achievements impressed the king, who demanded Zoran create an army of clayborn to repel the foreign invaders. The children slain in the Pestilence were collected by the king's forces, and their bones were rendered down into powder for the mass production of clayborn. Upon Adelinka's request, Zoran extracted a drop of her ichor and used it to animate each clayborn.

The clayborn repelled the foreign army, but in the aftermath, they began to suffer from cleaving - a state that damaged their internal ichor glands, causing them to go mad and develop a hunger for human bones. When denied what they desired, the clayborn turned first upon their human commanders, then upon the populace of the kingdom. Cleft clayborn distorted and mutated into terrible monsters, running wild and massacring the human population.

---Forging the Pristines---

The king demanded that Zoran stop the clayborn rebellion. Adelinka attempted to control the clayborn through her connection with them, but every effort caused her mould to be cleft. Clayborn would not attack her, but neither would they obey her.

Zoran instead sought an alternate means - a more powerful vessel for his daughter's ichor, something that would allow him to control all the clayborn. A Vessel of Communion that would bring all clayborn under a singular will. The Integral Vessel.

To create this instrument, Zoran first masterminded the birth of the Pristines. Taking four humans of noblebirth who had survived the war, Zoran created clayborn in their living image. Eight Pristines - four human, four clayborn. He claimed their superior design would make them immune to the cleaving that plagued the lesser clayborn. They pledged allegience to the king and became a kill squad, destroying the mad clayborn.

Zoran charged his Pristines to seek the Integral Vessel that he desired, but hid his true agenda from all involved. While the Pristines ventured out into the kingdom to seek the Vessel, in reality Zoran believed the Vessel already was embodied in one of his clayborn Pristines, owing to their perfect creation. He needed only for the true vessel to be revealed, which would happen when Pristine clayborn clashed with Pristine human. For a mould would inevitably seek conflict with their parent flesh, and in cutting them down would attain greater completeness. This conflict would expose the Integral Vessel for Zoran.

To engender conflict, Zoran made the humans aware of his favor for the clayborn Pristine, feeding their envy over their stronger, less-flawed counterparts. He also shared conflicting tellings of his agenda to both sides - to the clayborn Pristines, Zoran claimed that the Integral Vessel would simply bring all clayborn under control. To the human Pristines, Zoran claimed the Integral Vessel would be used to destroy all clayborn. With distrust and misinformation sowed between the Pristines, conflict would be assured.

But Zoran underestimated human malice.

---The Shattering of the Pristines---

The Pristine human Red Irma, a worshiper of the Moon Goddess, orchestrated the downfall of the Pristines to thwart Zoran's goals. Manipulating her clayborn counterpart Grey Irma, Red Irma pitted the Pristines against one-another, playing on their envy and resentment towards their counterparts, humans for their completeness, clayborn for their strength, and stoking the embers of suspicious over the true purpose of their mission.

Human fell to clayborn, and clayborn fell to Grey Irma, and Grey Irma to Red Irma. Red Irma cleaved her clayborn counterpart, intending to spoil all candidates for the Integral Vessel, and all of Zoran's plans.

Summary of Events | Grey Irma's Quest

"What is a human if not a clayborn's leash?
What is a parent if not a child's dire enemy?"
-The Gargoyles

Being the second part of the in-depth summary of the events in Moonscars.

---Grey Irma's Quest---

Grey Irma, her mould cleaved and ichor spilled, suffered from distorted memories and believed herself to have been a true human. Regaining her senses in the Outskirts of the kingdom, a booming Voice compelled her to seek the Sculptor. Suffering great pain from her shattered ichor gland, she sought relief in Zoran's Workshop. Entering the Mould Machine, she cast herself a new mould, still believing herself to be a human using the clayborn moulds as mere garments.

With her 'true' self safe in the Workshop, she cast mould after mould and ventured out into the kingdom, seeking Zoran in the Apex of the kingdom's castle. Her discarded moulds would become Dopplegangers and seek to usurp her, but she would strike them down and reclaim the remnants of her old selves, building her power.

Struggling to regain her memories of past events, she confronted the Pristine Chokran the Loyal, who became a monstrous clayborn in his cleft state. Already begrudged against Zoran, her resentment grew as Zoran's claims that Pristines were immune to cleaving were proven false.

The next Pristine to fall was Kind Wanda, who claimed to have discovered the Integral Vessel after slaying her human counterpart. Wanda used its power to still the hunger of the clayborn, but when confronted with Grey Irma's need to reach Zoran, she surrendered her ichor and her clay to her former sister. As Wanda fell, the angry Voice of the Earth called out, denying Wanda's ichor to Her 'Pale Daughter'. Though empowered by Wanda's mould, Grey Irma found the Integral Vessel within was cleft, a failed instrument.

Grey Irma was then compelled to seek out Cruel Lajos, her last Pristine clayborn comrade. Within the Bowels of the Earth, Lajos guarded the Master Kiln, a mysterious chamber far from the Moon's light where every vessel sculpted by Zoran was annealed and made into a true mould. The true birthplace of the clayborn. As Grey Irma ventured deeper into the bowels, she was confronted by a sobering truth.

---The Vessel Restored---

Her original self, the one that had stepped into the Moulding Machine, had awoken and emerged. The Grey Irma mould that had ventured throughout the land was not a simple garment guided by the original's mind, but had always been a distinct being in her own right. A Doppleganger all along, her original self a left-behind parent flesh. The original Grey Irma and the newborn mould crossed blades, and the original was struck down. Reforged, completed, believing she had killed her human counterpart, the new mould struggled to come to terms with her existence.

Grey Irma then confronted Lajos, seeking his Integral Vessel. The cruel giant sought to turn her away, spoke to her of her true human parent, of Red Irma. Lajos attempted to devour Grey Irma to keep her from the Kiln, but fell in the end. Grey Irma came to realize that Red Irma had been the architect of the Pristine's fall, manipulating her clayborn counterpart into turning on the others, before cleaving Grey Irma and leaving her for dead.

Grey Irma reached the Master Kiln, only to find it sealed by Zoran, who had come and gone while Grey Irma had dueled Lajos. Zoran had identified the true Integral Vessel, but now required it be properly filled.

---The Moon And Her Shadow---

Venturing to the Castle Apex in search of Zoran, Grey Irma stood beneath the bright full Moon, Her hunger sharp and biting, ready for the harvest of mortal ichor from human and clayborn alike. Atop the highest tower, Grey Irma confronted Red Irma, filled with grudges for her parent flesh.

Red Irma revealed that Grey Irma herself was the true Integral Vessel, a Pristine clayborn whose gland had not cleaved in the Kiln during her creation. Zoran had revealed to Red Irma that one of the Pristines was the true vessel, and so she had turned them against one-another to reveal it. She had cleaved Grey Irma herself to deny the vessel to Zoran, for Red Irma bore a grudge against all clayborn for despoiling her world.

Unbeknownst to Grey Irma, her merging of selves in the Bowels of the Earth had repaired the true Integral Vessel she had borne within herself from the moment of her first birth in the Master Kiln. She possessed what Zoran desired, and so Red Irma had to confront her again, for one final time.

Red Irma called upon the blessings of the Moon, which manifested blood red in the sky. Made into Her Shadow, Red Irma was ultimately no match for clayborn counterpart, and Grey Irma struck her down. Standing as her own entity, Grey Irma desired nothing and took nothing from Red Irma's demise - the vessel she had made herself into would not be filled with anything from her human counterpart.

---Vessel of Freedom---

A vision of Zoran bade Grey Irma return to the Workshop. Within she confronted Adelinka, who revealed how Zoran's clayborn army all bore a drop of her ichor. Though she had given it gladly, she no longer desired to rise again and again in new moulds, fearing that in time she would become someone unrecognizable and wanting to stay herself until the end. Embracing Grey Irma, she transferred her own ichor, now pitch black Dark Ichor, into the last Pristine. Their ichor blended, Grey Irma was now the true embodiment of the Integral Vessel, a flawless mould bearing the shared ichor that connected all clayborn.

Confronting Zoran in his Workshop's inner sanctum, Grey Irma was told by the Sculptor that the Pristines were given life not with Adelinka's ichor, but with Zoran's own, intended to make them vessels of his will. Zoran explained that now that Grey Irma bore Adelinka's ichor, she could unite all of his lost creations, binding all clayborn together into a communal will. This would prevent the Moon from draining their ichor and leaving them cleft and mad. For though clayborn were made from Earth's clay, they forever longed for the Moon, the first and greatest mould, as a symbol of false freedom, and would forever be her prey.

However, Grey Irma rejected the Communion the Sculptor offered, for in all becoming one, the individual selves would be lost. Believing all her experiences, triumphs and failures, wounds and limitations alike were what defined her and made her real, Grey Irma refused to lose it all in communal sleep. Neither Moon nor Earth would have her. Attempting to impose his will on her, Zoran attacked Grey Irma, but succumbed to his creation and was cut down.

Wounded but triumphant, Grey Irma made her way to the Great Kiln, and hurled an ichor gland into its depths. Declaring herself free at last, she wept tears of gold beneath a waning Moon.

Cosmology

"Yet a worm would never grasp the heavens, even when pecked by a thrush."
-Vladyslava, the Moon Priestess

Being mortal speculation on the greater powers that shape the world of Moonscars.

The Gentle Mistress - A lunar deity, daughter born of the Earth. In a way, the first ever mould, with the Earth Herself as Her parent flesh. Honored by those in the kingdom through the Church of the Moon. When ichor flows heavily, the Mistress becomes fierce and ravenous, hanging crimson in the sky overhead, and Her Moonhunger bites deeply into the world, driving clayborn into a frenzy and grinding bones to powder. Only an offering of ichor can sate Her hunger and make Her gentle again.

Her worshippers profess that the ichor that grants life to humanity comes from the Moon Mistress, though this is but a lie to grant human life some greater divine meaning. In truth, ichor emerges from the void within any being that hungers to exist - Creation Ex Nihilo, a soul growing from brute matter spontaneously and without design, from within oneself alone, not bestowed by any external entity.

No purpose, ultimately, but what they choose for themselves.

Ancient scriptures forbidden by the Church of the Moon suggest the Moon was born barren, and created humanity from Her own self-inflicted wounds to prove Herself to Her own Mother. Since that creation, Her wounds doomed Her to feel an eternal hunger for the life She spawned, and She has fed on the ichor of all those who walk under Her light. It is the hunger of the Moon that inevitably leads to the cleaving of the ichor glands within clayborn that drives them all to madness.

Etalag claims that the Mistress, whom he also calls Claws-from-Above, is responsible for the falling out of the Pristines, suggesting that Red Irma may have been compelled by her Goddess to bring about their ruin, in opposition to Zoran's plans. Whether by Her hunger or Her servants, the Moon is the architect of ruin for all clayborn, driving them to turn upon their human parents, and each other.


The Late Earth - An ancient deity of cthonic nature. Mother to the Moon. She has Her own thirst for ichor, and schemes to keep it from Her Pale Daughter.

Her Voice speaks to Grey Irma at times, compelling her to seek the Sculptor. The Gargoyles declare Grey Irma to be caught between Mother and Daughter, and at times warn not to listen to the lullaby of the Moon but instead the roots of the Earth. They yearn for the deeper time of Her dreamless sleep, when there was no time, no individuality, no cycle under the merciless moonlight of Her Daughter, who preys on lonely minds.

In distant past when Earth was young and cruel, She bore a race of giants that worshipped Her in grand temples and palaces. Zoran used bone powder from the bones of these giants to empower some of his clayborn. The Church of the Moon suggests the mad rage of the clayborn is begotten in their roots.

There is no explicit connection between Zoran and the Earth, though he is aware that it is Her clay that forms his clayborn moulds. Her Voice guides Grey Irma to seek Zoran, as part of Her conflict with Her Pale Daughter, while the Moon's disciple Red Irma seeks to thwart Zoran's plans. Zoran desires a Communion of all clayborn to free them from the Moon's predations, a melding of identities that coincides with the dreamless time of Earth's rule that the Gargoyles speak of. And perhaps the Great Kiln in the Earth's Bowels is one of the fabled temples of the ancient times, where giants worshipped Her grand body and basked in Her love.

Where does Zoran the Sculptor, hands caked in the clay of the Earth, truly draw his knowledge and power from...?

Conclusion

As with many games that share genres with Moonscars, from Hollow Knight and Blasphemous to Bloodborne and Dark Souls, my favorite part is unraveling all of the sweet, delicious lore. What I've written here is just one man's interpretations and conclusions regarding the game's story and setting - some things may not be totally accurate, and perhaps you've discerned something different or reached a different answer. Please feel free to share your own insights below.

Whatever the case, I hope you've enjoyed this time under the Moon's light. May Her hunger not bite too sharply.

"My poor friend, you were one of them."
-Zoran the Sculptor

[Athos]

Finishing the game right now on GOG , WHAT A GAME !

Perfect from the beginnig to the end ( more or less hahaha )

Thank you very much.

[sense]

Hey, I just read the Ukrainian translation, and the effort you've put into explaining this interesting and mysterious sublunary world is just amazing! Thanks for your work

[Khrin_z_hory]

Thank you.

[Unterpunk]

Big thanks, i really appreciate your attitude

[Golden Yak]

@Unterpunk - that sounds like a great idea, you absolutely have my permission.

[Unterpunk]

Hey there, Yak, i really liked your lore overview back in days when i read it for the first time after finishing the game and i still like it tho . After four playthroughs i developed a passion to this game and recently game received an update that in addition to all the changes added Ukrainian language, which is really important for us as players. So happened that im in process of getting a degree in translation with English as a main lang, so i kinda wanted to combine these two passions and i want to ask for your permission for me to translate this musings and upload it so Ukrainian players that will be trying to learn more about the game, could read this information in their native language. If i'll get your permission, i will obviously mention you as an original author of this summary.

[Rose 🏳️‍🌈]

I like how the Ukrainian writer gave some of the characters Ukrainian/Slavic names like Adelina, Karina and Vladyslava. Ion seems like a nod to the devs being Moldovan.

[sashunator]

Great job!

[l0stw0lf]

after finishing the game I came here to read the lore and you did a great job explaining the game! I love the lore in games like these!

[lastsonof7]

Nice